Atwater, Mary Meigs

Mary Meigs Atwater was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on 28 February 1878. She received her early education by private tutors, and studied design in France around the turn of the twentieth century. She married Maxwell W. Atwater, a mining engineer, in 1903 and the couple had two children, Montgomery and Elizabeth. She organized a hand loom weaver's guild while living in Basin, Montana, around 1916 and eventually offered correspondence courses for the craft based on her research of various designs. Atwater wrote numerous articles and books on weaving during her career, and she died in 1956.

From the description of Mary Meigs Atwater letter to H.G. Merriam, 1936 Feb. 5. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 781461073